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I don't know whom I adored more: Billy Bob Thornton as a greasy hick with a whiff of Tales From the Crypt -style demonism; Nick Nolte, as a skeletal, gravel-voiced albino who could be John Huston after a decade of being eaten by worms; or Jon Voight, as a blind half-Indian whose portentous utterances are both full of crap and eerily abstruse.
There are many extremely abstruse notions in linguistics, and if any one might find useful a brief summarization [ sic ] of many of the linguistic philosophies of the past 150 years, this is a convenient, minimalist approach.
As history grew more and more abstruse in the '60s and '70s, historians ceded the role of public intellectual to journalists.
The reason: an abstruse quarrel over abortion funding.
Inevitably, one encounters articles on relatively abstruse subjects that, owing to concision, are not easily understood, chiefly because they assume a level of sophistication not necessarily possessed by the user.